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Hey, I grew up here. Although when I was there, it was called Hillcrest Apartments. My parents and I lived in a two bedroom towne house. I remember we moved out on my Dad's birthday one year (August 26th), basically because the rent was increasing, and so were the number of roaches. Imagine being 6 years old and seeing a roach crawling on your bathroom heater with a baby roach on its back. I'll be 21 this year (July 2nd actually) and that image is still seared into my brain.
Anyway, this article reminded me of how all those people, including a friend of my Mom's had to rush and move out, due to problems with plumbing and abestos. The city could barely help with each family's moving expenses. Although the article speaks of how crime has decreased drastically in the community of Bond Hill, due to a greater part of its population having to move out of Huntington Meadows (aka Hillcrest Apartments), it made me think about my first 8 years of life, growing up in that complex.